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A
Anita Amirrezvani
• The Blood of Flowers
Dennis Lee Anderson
• Arthur, King
Malcolm Archibald
• Whales for the Wizard
Larita Arnold
• The Fastest Ship
Margaret Atwood
• Alias Grace
Bernardo Atxaga
• The Lone Man
Lynn Austin
• Candle in the Darkness
Avi
• The Man Who Was Poe
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
B
Kage Baker
• Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
David Beasley
• Sarah's Journey
Linda Berdoll
• Mr Darcy Takes a Wife
Jen Black
• The Banners of Alba
Julia Blackburn
• The Leper's Companions
David Blixt
• The Master of Verona
Robert Bloch
• The Night of the Ripper
Joseph Boyden
• Three Day Road
Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Firebrand
• The Mists of Avalon
• Priestess of Avalon, with Diana Paxson
Gillian Bradshaw
• Hawk of May
• Kingdom of Summer
• In Winter's Shadow
• The Sand-Reckoner
• The Wolf Hunt
Steven Brust & Emma Bull
• Freedom & Necessity
Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Spirit Ring
Emma Bull & Steven Brust
• Freedom & Necessity
C
Michael Cadnum
• In a Dark Wood
Mark C. Carnes, editor
• Novel History: Historians & Novelists Confront America's Past
Jack Cavanaugh
• While Mortals Sleep
David Chacko
• The Severan Prophecies
Tracy Chevalier
• The Lady & the Unicorn
Catherine Christian
• The Pendragon
Jon Clinch
• Finn
Susan Cooper
• Dawn of Fear
• Victory
Bernard Cornwell
• Stonehenge: 2000 B.C.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
• Pope Joan
Kevin Crossley-Holland
• Arthur, Book I: The Seeing Stone
Elizabeth Cunningham
• Daughter of the Shining Isles
• The Passion of Mary Magdalen
Sheldon Currie
• The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
Leah R. Cutter
• Paper Mage
D
Lindsey Davis
• Two for the Lions
Maggie Davis
• Winter Serpent
Annabel Davis-Goff
• The Fox's Walk
Katherine Deauxville
• The Amethyst Crown
• Blood Red Roses
Emma Donoghue
• Life Mask
Dave Duncan
• The Alchemist's Apprentice
E
Randy Lee Eickhoff
• The Destruction of the Inn
• The Feast
• The Raid
• The Sorrows
Jack Engelhard
• The Days of the Bitter End
Alfredo Jose Estrada
• Welcome to Havana, Senor Hemingway
F
Eleanor Fairburn
• The White Seahorse
Sebastian Faulks
• Birdsong
Charles Foran
• Carolan's Farewell
C.S. Forester
• Hornblower & the Hotspur
Jodie Forrest
• The Rhymer & the Ravens
G
Diana Gabaldon
• Outlander
Elizabeth Garrett
• The Sweet Trade
Mary Gentle
• 1610: A Sundial in a Grave
Adele Geras
• Voyage
Amitav Ghosh
• The Glass Palace
Patricia Reilly Giff
• Maggie's Door
Parke Godwin
• Beloved Exile
• Firelord
• Robin & the King
• Sherwood
Winston Graham
• Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1818-1820
Amanda Grange
• Mr. Darcy's Diary
H
Joe Haldeman
• Guardian
Barbara Hambly
• The Emancipator's Wife
Pauline Hayton
• A Corporal's War: World War II Adventures of a Royal Engineer
Georgette Heyer
• An Infamous Army
Nancy Holder
• Spirited
Cecelia Holland
• The Angel & the Sword
• The Kings in Winter
A.H. Holt
• Kendrick
• Riding Fence
• Silver Creek
Mary Hooper
• Petals in the Ashes
Kate Horsley
• Confessions of a Pagan Nun
James D. Houston
• Snow Mountain Passage
J
Marie Jakober
• The Black Chalice
Cary James
• King & Raven
Kij Johnson
• The Fox Woman
Okeyo A. Jumal
• Spiritual Shackles
K
Ellen Kushner
• Thomas the Rhymer
L
Mercedes Lackey
• The Fire Rose
Mary Lancaster
• The Endless Exile
Joe R. Lansdale
• Zeppelins West
Whitney LeBlanc
• Shadows of the Blues
Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird
J. Ardian Lee
• Outlaw Sword
• Sword of King James
Tanith Lee
• Piratica
Tom Lewis
• Pea Island Gold #1: Sunday's Child
• Pea Island Gold #2: Hitler's Judas
John Richard Lindermuth
• Schlussel's Woman
Morgan Llywelyn
• Bard
• Finn MacCool
• 1916
• 1921
• 1949: A Novel of the Irish Free State
• The Wind from Hastings
Reyna Thera Lorele
• The Archer King
Valerie Rolfe Lupini
• The Whistle
M
George MacDonald
• Malcolm
Kevin Major
• No Man's Land
William Martin
• Harvard Yard
David Matheson
• Red Thunder
Robin Maxwell
• The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
Anne McCaffrey
• Black Horses for the King
Mardi McConnochie
• Coldwater
Ian McDowell
• Mordred's Curse
Alice McGill
• Molly Bannaky, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet
Nancy McKenzie
• The Child Queen
• The High Queen
Robin McKinley
• The Outlaws of Sherwood
Janet McNaughton
• An Earthly Knight
L.A. Meyer
• Bloody Jack
• Curse of the Blue Tattoo
• Under the Jolly Roger
• In the Belly of the Bloodhound
• Mississippi Jack
Jonna L. Miller
• Haunting for Time
Stuart W. Mirsky
• The King of Vinland's Saga
Christopher Moore
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Kate Mosse
• Labyrinth
Abdelrahman Munif
• Cities of Salt
N
Donna Jo Napoli
• Hush
• Song of the Magdalene
James L. Nelson
• Brethren of the Coast #1: The Guardship
• Brethren of the Coast #2: The Blackbirder
• Brethren of the Coast #3: The Pirate Round
Troy Nilsson
• Shadow Stones of Hiroshima
O
Patrick O'Brian
• #1: Master & Commander
• #2: Post Captain
• #3: H.M.S. Surprise
• #4: The Mauritius Command
• #5: Desolation Island
• #6: The Fortune of War
• #8: The Ionian Mission
• #10: The Far Side of the World
• #11: The Reverse of the Medal
• #12: The Letter of Marque
• #16: The Wine-Dark Sea
Joseph O'Connor
• Star of the Sea
Lauri Olsen
• Pacific Bound: The Adventures of Lewis & Clark
Mark Andrew Olsen
• The Assignment
Caroline Coleman O'Neill
• Loving Soren
Juilene Osborne-McKnight
• Daughter of Ireland
• I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick & Osian
P
Gary E. Parker
• Highland Hopes
Janice Ward Parrish
• The Sweet Smell of a Chinaberry Tree
Bill & Cindy Paul
• Shadow of an Indian Star
Matthew Pearl
• The Dante Club
Sharon Kay Penman
• Dragon's Lair, A Medieval Mystery
• Time & Chance
• When Christ & His Saints Slept
Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Captain Alatriste
R
Irene Radford
• Merlin's Descendants #3: Guardian of the Vision
• Merlin's Descendants #4: Guardian of the Promise
• Merlin's Descendants #5: Guardian of the Freedom
Celia Rees
• Pirates!
• Sorceress
• Witch Child
Mary Renault
• The Charioteer
• The Last of the Wine
Mike Resnick
• The Other Teddy Roosevelts
Judith Merkle Riley
• In Pursuit of the Green Lion
• The Master of All Desires
• The Serpent Garden
• A Vision of Light
Sandra Riley
• Sisters of the Sea
Ann Rinaldi
• Come Juneteenth
John Maddox Roberts
• Hannibal's Children
• The Seven Hills
Madeleine E. Robins
• Point of Honour
Michaela Roessner
• The Stars Dispose
David Rose
• The Viking Sagas: Godiva
Salman Rushdie
• The Moor's Last Sigh
Edward Rutherfurd
• The Rebels of Ireland
S
C.J. Sansom
• Dark Fire
Anita Shreve
• Sea Glass
Lauraine Snelling
• A Dream to Follow
Elizabeth George Speare
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Nancy Springer
• I am Mordred
Norman Spinrad
• The Druid King
Nancy Springer
• Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest
Susan Squires
• Danelaw
Neal Stephenson
• The Baroque Cycle #2: The Confusion
• Cryptonomicon
Mary Stewart
• The Crystal Cave
• The Wicked Day
T
Judith Tarr
• Rite of Conquest
Debra Tash
• Challenge the Wind
• Masters of the Air
Ann Tatlock
• All the Way Home
• I'll Watch the Moon
Tommy Tenney
• Hadassah: One Night with the King
Bodie & Brock Thoene
• The Galway Chronicles #1: Only the River Runs Free
• The Galway Chronicles #2: Of Men & of Angels
Thomas Thorpe
• Darmon Mysteries #3: The Patriote Proposition
• Darmon Mysteries #4: Night Wind to Bahia
Nigel Tranter
• The Bruce Trilogy
• Kenneth
• MacBeth the King
• The Stone
Jeanne Treat
• Dark Birthright
Peter Tremayne
• Our Lady of Darkness
Ginger Turner & Shekhar Shimpi
• Gold Mine! The California Gold Rush Story
Harry Turtledove
• Ruled Britannia
Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
W
Jill Paton Walsh
• A Parcel of Patterns
C.D. White
• The Broken Sword
• Standards Left Ragged
J. Robert Whittle
• Lizzie: Lethal Innocence
Jack Whyte
• The Saxon Shore
Jeanne Williams
• The Island Harp
Connie Willis
• Winds of Marble Arch & Other Stories
Elvira Woodruff
• Small Beauties
Persia Woolley
• Child of the Northern Spring
• Queen of the Summer Stars
Gerald Allen Wunsch
• Curiosity
Y
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Borne in Blood
• Roman Dusk
Jane Yolen
• The Ballad of the Pirate Queens, illustrated by David Shannon
• Merlin & the Dragons, illustrated by Li Ming
• Sherwood
• Sword of the Rightful King
• Tam Lin, illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak
• Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots, with Robert J. Harris
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